Suleikha Snyder

Except it’s not really fan service because they’re asking people who aren’t even fans yet. It’s market research.

It’s all about the rush to get things out, to satisfy a market, to compete—and who they’re competing with are doing the exact same thing. So we see no growth in the actual skill involved in writing.

Minneapolis would like a word.

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we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Choosing to publish a column, especially a series of columns that follow a narrow ideology is a choice. The Times promotes right wing ideas not through occasionally publishing a conservative piece but by constantly pushing con ideas/frames in opinion and news coverage

Thank you! I think we’re always figuring out the next steps. It never ends, because the publishing road keeps taking weird turns.

It infuriates and frustrates me as well. Why am I out here torturing myself trying to write when it no longer seems to matter?

Hence the greater importance of character art than of the books themselves. They want pretty pictures, no substance.

Yeah. I said basically this in another reply. I'm sure BookTok and influencers have a lot to do with it, too.

It has already resulted in stunted books. There has been a huge shift, especially in the indie romance space, in how people approach writing and the business of it. It’s a product-driven fandom, not art.

Is this a product of being dependent on AO3 kudos/comments or whatever the equivalent is on Wattpad? Is that where it’s coming from? Because I’m just baffled by it.

All spice and smut in a book is sex.
All sex in a book is NOT spice or smut.

Some people really need to understand that distinction.

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Like I was saying the other day—craft is all but dead. No one’s learning to write. They’re just learning to market.

Since they want the readers to make all the decisions.

Right? And yet this is how it is now! It’s like they’re crowdsourcing books.

Jesus fucking Christ. I keep seeing authors on Threads asking readers how many sex scenes they should put in their books. “What would you prefer?” WTF? Your characters/plot should inform how much sex there is, not randos. Your book is not Burger King. Readers do not need to have it their way.

Y tu JLo también.

Stoned is actually the perfect state of being for this movie.

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It definitely feels like a stage production.

Honestly, Diego Luna. How dare you be so hot? Disheveled, cranky, and imprisoned is apparently doing it for me right now.

Or, as I liked to call him, Ian Smolderhotter.

I’m about to attempt the Diego Luna and Jennifer Lopez version of Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Sidebar: The THC has just hit.

I am not surprised her YA is as gripping as her adult work. I’ve loved her Shelly Ellis books and what I’ve read of L.S. Stratton.

Just finished L.S. Stratton’s Sundown Girls and if I were wearing socks they’d be knocked off. That could also be the weed talking but I’m pretty sure it’s the book. Shelly’s YA debut about a once-kidnapped Black teen getting drawn into the history, and equally perilous present, of a sundown town.

No, it was Wolverine/Storm and a couple of other pairings.

That was 31 years ago. And I was *writing* fanfic at 12-13—for 21 Jump Street. 😆

I was 16-17, reading filthy X-Men fanfic on some random X-Men adult fiction site and X-Files fic on the Gossamer archive. I used the school library computer during study hall.

Ben Cross is so wooden, Barnabas comes equipped with a built-in stake. 🤣 Painfully bad.